Poetry Says

Pam Brown is back to talk new work, readings, myths, prize culture & the NBN. Show notes Stasis Shuffle Collected Works bookshop Ep 104. with Pam Sappho’s Ken Bolton Amelia Dale A.J. Carruthers Michael Farrell reads at Readings Laurie Duggan Pam’s review of Sydney Spleen by Toby Fitch The Jindyworobak Movement Let’s Get Lost by Pam, Ken & Laurie Maya Deren Click here for what we do w...

Beware the Alley of Prosody. Show notes Ep 150. Nerding out with Eleanor BookTube Ocean Vuong’s Time is a Mother Warsan Shire’s Bless the Daughter Raised by a Voice in Her Head Popular musician Beyoncé Emily Berry’s Unexhausted Time Exceptional song Love Again by Dua Lipa Thin Air by Linda Gregerson Outro: Happy Cat Disco – Delight In New Rules (Dua Lipa vs. Maethelvin)

Following on from last week , David Latham from fund the arts shares some hair-curling statistics about arts funding as it stands in the lead-up to the federal election. If you want to know more about the campaign, you can find them on Twitter , Instagram & Facebook . Show notes The Creativity in Crisis report Ben Eltham Profit is rare, but poetry’s weird blooms persist by Bonny Cassidy The St...

Unfortunately, your application was not successful on this occasion. Ep 170. with Kent MacCarter 2014 is a rich and radical time in Australian poetry by Bonny Cassidy Profit is rare, but poetry’s weird blooms persist by Bonny Cassidy Australia Council for the Arts The Stella Prize A message from the Australia Council CEO Can Australian literature survive another round of arts cuts (panel at Readin...

In/significance in poetry. Show notes I Was Minor by Olena Kalytiak Davis and her interview on the Commonplace podcast Poem by Weldon Kees The Disappearing Poet by Anthony Lane Open Yale Courses ENGL 220: Milton – Lecture 3 Milton’s Ad Patrem George Green’s Summer of ’72

The managing editor of Cordite on acceptances, rejections, guest editors, money, book making and risk. Show notes Cordite Books , which has published poets including Jeanine Leane, John Mukky Burke, Alison Flett, Kim Cheng Boey, Tony Birch, Charmaine Papertalk Green, Omar Sakr & Lucy Van They will oxidise before you even finish reading , Kent’s piece for Overland on poetry publishing in...

Hey Jane. Get me offa this crazy thing. Show notes So I Married An Axe Murderer (1993) Woman! Woman! (breakup) Harriet! Allen Ginsberg reads America Jack Kerouac reads American Haikus Episodes 150 & 101

Cassandra Atherton is extremely patient with my prose poetry skepticism. Show notes The Ordinary and the Unreal by Cassandra Atherton and Paul Hetherington . (Eliot: ‘Both verse and prose still conceal unexplored possibilities, but whatever one writes must be definitely and by inner necessity either one or the other.’) The Anthology of Australian Prose Poetry (Melbourne University Press, 202...

Drawing lines and immediately walking over them. Show notes Scorsese on Marvel Movies Why do crickets chirp? Ep 163. with K Boys for Pele (1996) The Holiday (2006) Roderick on the Line (forever) Ep 118. with Alison Whittaker Alison’s review of Sarah Maddison SLEERICKETS Ep 45 Loma AKA Christopher Soto’s poem All The Dead Boys Look Like Me Maggie Smith’s Good Bones Cid Corman&#821...

Clutching my pearls over Instapoetry with Rachael Nielsen . (Write to me! poetrysayspod@gmail.com) Show notes Rabbit issue 24 Emma Watson Interviews Rupi Kaur for Our Shared Shelf Lora Mathis Instagram Poetry for Every Day Segovia Amil Katy Waldman : “…there has to be a better way to lift up people with problems than to declare that problems are beautiful. Who cares if problems are bea...

Please give the academics more wine. Show notes T.S. Eliot: The Search for Happiness (2019) Death in Venice by Thomas Mann The Politics and Play of Terrance Hayes by Dan Chiasson High Windows by Philip Larkin No worst, there is none. Pitched past pitch of grief. by Gerard Manley Hopkins I always put my pussy… by Eileen Myles Rilke’s Duino Elegies Moonrise by David Davies

Extremely reasonable and talented human being Thabani Tshuma talks me off various ledges. Show notes The Melba Speigeltent The Melbourne Spoken Word Prize Thabani’s poems Put It In Writing and No Strings La Mama Theatre The Thin Red Lines poetry event series Roger Selazny’s The Doors of His Face, The Lamps of His Mouth Wanda Coleman’s Wicked Enchantment Ross Gay’s The Books of Delights Conne...

K & I walk the Yarra River while tracking Nam Le’s post-lockdown poem Abbotsford I . Show notes Nam on Wikipedia An interview with Nam for Wyoming PBS Nam’s poems Elegies in Poetry Magazine and Collingwood published by The Diasporic Vietnamese Artists Network Crossing Brooklyn Ferry by Walt Whitman Salvatore the seal “Time, once more, for the big clean-out of winter fittings&...

“To wake up and be like the weather to be no longer the broken hearted servants of mad kings.” Show notes Robert Montgomery The Great Resignation / Hidden Resignation Ep 147. with Dan Hogan Letters to a Young Poet & Rilke’s writing advice Carl Skoggard’s translation of Archaic Torso of Apollo The Grass Library & Ep 106. with David Brooks The Open by Lucy Van Outro:...

“Who on earth would sing, if song were merely an effortless warbling until kingdom come?” Show notes Vagabond’s new work campaign Julia Cameron’s The Artist’s Way Everything you need to know about Rachel Hollis Ep 158 with Matthew Buckley Smith Sleerickets Ep 39 Envy by Contrapoints The Writer Antonia Pont vs. Envy Envy of Other People’s Poems by Robert Haas Ari...

And what is the fastest fish? Show notes Archives Fine Books My interview with Shastra Deo Helen Allan John Blight Two absolute icons

Just before New Year’s I got to meet up with Shastra Deo in Brisbane. She spoke about expectation, regret, her award-winning collection The Agonist , how that book continues to follow her, and the weird, frustrating tension between poetry and the industry around it. Show notes Shastra’s interview with Terri Ann Quan Sing for Hello Poet Eileen Chong Evelyn Araluen’s Dream Sequence...

Matthew Buckley Smith is a poet who makes a podcast called SLEERICKETS . You’re welcome. Show notes SLEERICKETS Ep 33: Pudding Day More starter episodes: Ep 14: M*****f****r of the Arts: (includes discussion of Ben Lerner’s The Lights ), Ep 24: Musée des NSFW Arts (includes discussion of Keats’ Ode on a Grecian Urn ) & Ep 13: Against Hope (my favourite). Shane McCrae Frederic...

Turns out I just really like pop music. p.s. Since recording this I’ve learned that A. E. Housman rushed out his Last Poems hoping straight boy crush Moses Jackson would read it. Girl, same. Show notes No Second Troy by William Butler Yeats Maggie Nelson’s Bluets The Penguin Book of Japanese Verse Mibu Tadamine The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam The In Our Time ep on Fitzgerald’s bitte...

Giving up on poetry, the luxury of regret, and relapse. With help from Liz Taylor & Van Johnson . Show notes Jennifer Mills’ piece On Quitting Poetry & her books Alison Croggon’s Giving up poetry & her New and Selected Poems 1991-2017 Adrienne Rich Rimbaud Vauxhall & I Finding Neverland Berryman by W. S. Merwin

I interviewed Luke Beesley on a rainy Friday, keen to ask about some of what came up when I spoke to Matthew Buckley Smith on Sleerickets episode 30 , and not to ask about process, or influence. (I failed to avoid those areas.) Luke reads from his latest collection Aqua Spinach as well as from Jam Sticky Vision , and we talk about the fact that we have oceans of patience for weirdos like David Lyn...

A story. With thanks to ford. for allowing me to use his beautiful track Dusk as the outro here. Also to Lauren Bacall , Andre Prévin & Dinah Shore . Show notes Mary Karr’s Tropic of Squalor and her poem The Voice of God The Best Poems of Jane Kenyon selected by Donald Hall Sleerickets Ep 30 in which we chat about blurbs, among other things Mark Doty almost definitely has read the book H...

I ask the inimitable Jennifer Compton about her poem Dear Les, why we have no boys in our poetry group, and gaining control by losing it. We also chat about a new poem of hers, and then I get a rejection in real time. Show notes Jen’s poem Law and Order Jen performing Love is not Love Sonnet 116 Black Inc.’s Best Australian Poems Australian Poetry’s Best Australian Poems Vol 1, 2...

I fail to explain poetry. With thanks to K, who only agreed to this after the fact.

Peter Goldsworthy (poet, novelist, Medal of Australia recipient…) describes himself as a doctor-writer. In this last Poetry Month interview, we talk about why he writes in the direct, plain-speaking way he does, the poems he’s been writing about his cancer treatment, and why he thinks anyone who wants to write poetry should simply ‘go for it’.